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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Graduate 'volts' into podium finish at engineering competition 

Published on 19 October, 2010 

Recent CQUniversity graduate John Quinn has been named as Queensland runner-up in the prestigious Present Around the World engineering competition.

Currently working with Ergon Energy, John's competition entry was the 'Closed Loop Voltage Control for Medium Voltage Distribution'.

PhotoID:9865, L-R: Trevor Gear (Manager Demand Planning and Facilitation, Ergon); runner-up John Quinn; Associate Professor Ken Kwong (CQUniversity staff representative), and Clive Tudge, Past-Chairman of IET Queensland and Chairman of the judging panel
L-R: Trevor Gear (Manager Demand Planning and Facilitation, Ergon); runner-up John Quinn; Associate Professor Ken Kwong (CQUniversity staff representative), and Clive Tudge, Past-Chairman of IET Queensland and Chairman of the judging panel

The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Present Around the World (PATW) International Competition Queensland Final and Engineers Australia Queensland Division Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student Presentation Competition is jointly hosted annually by IET Queensland and Engineers Australia Queensland Division, Electrical and ITEE Branches.

John's project was supervised by Dr Amanullah from CQUniversity and Trevor Gear from Ergon Energy. As runner-up, he will receive $200, an IET Certificate of Participation and one year's free membership of IET.

You can LINK HERE to recent profile on John Quinn - Swiss bliss over Rocky student's knack for software